Improvement in seed-planters



G. W; BROWN. SEED PLANTER.

1 12,811 Patented May 3, 18551 v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC enonen W. BROWN, or GALESBURG, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEED-PLANTERS.

Speeiiication't'orining part of Letters Patent No. l92,8ll, dated May 8, 1855.

1'0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that l, GEORGE W. BnowN, of Galesbui'g, in the county of Knox and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Seed-Planters; and I do her leby declare the following to be a full, clear,

ant exact .description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part thereof, in which.

Figure 1 represents a perspective View.

Fig. 2 represents a top view of the front part of the machine, with the covers of the seedlioppers removed to show the interior. Fig. 3 represents a vertical section taken through the red line a: a: of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 represents one of the runners detached.

Similar letters in the several figures denote like parts. I

A A represent runner-shaped pieces curved up in front and shod with iron, it. These pieces are sharp in front, so as to divide the earth and form a furrow, and they widen out at their rear ends and are at said ends hollow,

so as to serve as a shoe or tube for conveying the seed to'the ground. On top of these runseat or stand E, so that he may vibrate said lever when the marker F comes opposite the hill or row previously planted.

In each of the open rear ends of the runners A is pivoted a valve, f, Fig. 3, which are connected at their upper. ends to the plates d, and as these plates d are partially rotated by the vibration of the rod 6 the valves f also vibrate on their center of motion, so thatthe charge of seed that is let down from the hopper through the plate (I is stopped by the valves f and held until they vibrate again. When this is. done the previous charge .drops to the ground. Thus by every vibration of the plates d and valves fone charge is dropped into the opcnin g through the rear of the runners and caught and held, and the previous charge is dropped to the ground.

This machine does not drop the seed automatically. On the contrary, it is operated by an attendant riding on the machine, who guides the dropping by the pointer F.

The hoppers and operators seat, being mounted .on the runners, form the front of the machine.

To the sides of the hoppers, at g, are hinged two outside supporting-pieces, G G,..and to the one of them being seen in Fig. 53 which are made adjustable on said pieces Hby means of pins or bolts passing through the holes 1 2 3, which-makes the depth at which the runners enter the ground, and consequently the depth at which the seed are planted, adjustable at pleasure by slipping said wedges farther for ward under the cross-beam L or slipping it farther back, which operations would respectively raise or lower the front part of the machine, and the runners with it.

At each side of the machine, underneath the pieces'G, are stops i, (one only being seen in Fig. 1,) upon which said pieces G rest, and by which and the cam-wedges under the crossbeam L the driver, by shifting his position on his seat forward or back, may cause his weight to add to the raising or holding down of the front part of the machine, as may be required. When the corn is deposited in the ground the wheels J J "roll immediately over' the furrows .and cover up the seed, pressing the earth at the same time firmly over them".

' M is a crossbar extending across from point to point of the runners A, and to this and the frame'iu rear of it, is fastened the tongue N for guiding the machine, 0 being the double and P the whifile trees. to which the horses are attached. 7

Fig. 4 represents more fully the shape of the runners and the mode of shoeing them with iron. They are wedge-shaped from front to rear, so as to freely open and spread the furrow and afford width behind for the opening and valve f, as seen in Fig. 3. I

Having thus fully described the nature of my invention, what I claim therein as new, by each vibration of the lever D and to regu and desire to secure by Letters Patent, ish late the depth of the planting, as described.

In combination with the hoppers and t eir semi-rotating plates (1, the runners A, with GEORGE BROWN their valves f and their adjustment, by means Witnesses:

of the lovers and cams and the drivers weight, ISAAC DELANO,

for thepnrpose of carrying and dropping seeds J ABEZ EASTES. 

